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Sticky Leaders

Copyright © 2013, 2016 by Larry Osborne

Previously published as Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret

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ePub Edition © July 2016: ISBN 978-0-310-52949-1

The Library of Congress cataloged the original edition as follows:

Osborne, Larry W., 1952–

Innovation’s dirty little secret : why serial innovators succeed where others fail / Larry Osborne.

pages cm.— (Leadership network innovation series)

ISBN 978-0-310-49450-8 (hardcover) 1. Creative ability in business. 2. Leadership. I. Title.

HD53.O83 2013

658.4'063—dc23

2013017692

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